Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

Sheep shaped human history for 12,000 years. Scientists traced their migration, domestication, and genetic evolution.

DNA Analysis of Sheep Bones Reveal Early Farmers Selectively Bred Sheep for Pristine Coats Ancient DNA analysis has shed new light on sheep domestication's long and intertwined history, revealing that ...

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

"Early humans, more than 30,000 years ago, did not live in isolation from the animal world; they were integrated into a network of relationships with scavengers," says Baumann. From today's ...

The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to ...

President Donald Trump fired at least 18 inspectors general across the federal government without required notification to ...

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity. Geoscientists conducted ...

Ohio was considered the early agricultural capital of the U.S. in the early 1800s as western expansion continued. Many settlers, after the hard trek over the Appalachians, fell in love with the plains ...

Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

Study shows early humans had plant-based diets Meat wasn’t a significant part of Australopithecus diet Research helps understand human dietary evolution ...